Highway robbery
By: by Kate Thompson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061730344; 9780061730351
Subjects: Turpin, Richard, -- 1706-1739 -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Horses -- Fiction; Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: On a cold day in eightheenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.